Abed's Master Key

"Abed's Master Key"Air date: Mar 7, 2012 — Season: Three — Featuring: The study group, Dean Pelton and Ben ChangSummary: Abed is made Dean Pelton's assistant and given the school's "Master Key" in this animated 3 part web series

Dean Pelton, you seem extra animated today!

— Annie

Community: Abed's Master Key is a three part animated webisode that has Abed being made Depu-Dean and given the responsibility of safeguarding the "Master Key" to the school . It aired March 7, 2012 and was produced to promote the return of Community on March 15 from its hiatus. The episodes were written by Dan Harmon's Channel 101 alumni Dave Seger and Tom Kauffman. The animation was done by Animax Entertainment.

Previously: In the Season Two episode "Conspiracy Theories and Interior Design", Dean Pelton mentions he is writing a novel called "The Time Desk: The Chronicles of Dean Dangerous". In Part 3 he is shown holding an award for writing a screen play for that novel.

First appearance: The character of Kyle Scmidt appears a few times in this webisode series

School supplies: Abed is given "The Master Key".

School uniform: Abed wears a piano key neck tie for his new job as the Dean's assistant.

Jeff mentions they are all missing a finger, a standard animation trope.

Annie mentions that the Dean looks "extra animated".

Abed looks straight at the camera and mentions a hiatus while welcoming back the study table referencing the real life hiatus the show was going through at the time.

Everyone's a critic: Britta criticizes the Dean for not counting the number of online students who attend Greendale. This is a jab at 'Community"'s ratings which are low despite the seeming popularity of the show online.